Tag: change

My friends, we are on the cusp of 2019. It is not a new thing to be thinking of what we want to change, manifest, or release. This is a wired into us. Before the modern world, the people knew that the wheel was turning. The twelve days of Christmas was originally the twelve days of Yule and it ended on the 1st of the month, right when the wheel turns. It is the thick of winter, a time of deep contemplation. A bright new beginning. A time of rebirth from the solstice when the sun begins to shine a bit more each day. The light in us grows ever more as well.

My work is as an herbalist, a clairvoyant reader, medical intuitive, and spiritual guide. This is an unusual time. Most everyone is in great transformation. It is as if the universe is plucking things right out of people’s hands; relationships, jobs, identities. Our worst traits are being exposed to the sun in order to change. Our paths are being laid out in drastic form. It is best if we just release.

We are in a time of great change. We are in a time when the young have more intuitive and sensitive people among them and they are struggling to understand why they are the way they are and are looking for mentors…or masking medications. We are all being called to find our path. To release our bad habits, fears, and ego and to embrace a better sense of self. 2019 may be a miraculous year for us all. There are whispers and questions in the air that need answers.

What relationships cause you pain and stress?

Are your food choices compassionate, healthy, and karmically sound?

Are you honoring your body with movement?

Are you honoring your spirituality by being open to listen to truths being taught to you? Are you taking time to honor that which you believe in?

Are you emotionally taking wellness breaks?

Are you working yourself every minute of the day for the car payment, for the dishes to be done, for the endless errands and hours at work to be done?

Your passions and desires are the road map to your destiny. What do you dream of? What does your life look like in your ideal world? Who are you with? What do you do?

What fears need to be released? What negative habits need to be let go of? What regrets do you carry? Forgiving yourself is as important as forgiving others.

1- Just because you are very good at something doesn’t mean you have to do it. You can always reinvent what your life looks like.

2- Life is meant to be experienced. There is no one purpose. You will have plenty of time to ponder the meaning of the universe, right now be human and experience life.

3- Change is never easy. Allow yourself to mourn. But keep that glimmer of hope because the best is yet to come and closed doors lead to wide open opportunities.

4- Quiet your chattering mind. Tune into the activity around you. As I sit here on the porch on this lovely late summer day I watch a mouse quietly approach the bird seed and begin to nibble as dozens of finches take flight, their silhouettes artful in the filtered light. I listen to the crickets’ songs of summer and feel the cooling breeze on my skin before the dog days of summer heat that is to set in later. There is a much bigger world than what is going on in our minds.

5- Listen to your passions and follow their road. Do not try and figure out where they go, just follow their lead.

6- See people’s spirits. See them as children. Banish ignorance. Don’t give into fear.

8- Be enchanted. Life is brief and blissful. It is what we make it. It is what we create. A large black bird lands on a trellis next to me. He is fascinating in his mottled browns and blacks and tussled feathers. I wonder if he was born this very year. The glorious blue jays screech their joyful song across treetops.

9- Have faith. Know that you were not just dropped on this earth without lifelines. Fear is the lack of faith.

We all have a purpose. There is not just one purpose but many interwoven with each other through time. You are not just a mom, a wife, a farmer, a nurse, or a teacher. You are a spiritual and feeling being and a human with desires and passions. Identifying those passions that you have right now (passions change as you complete your paths) will help you find what will bring you the most joy.

It may be a career, or learning a new skill, it may be a profound change in yourself or your family for the better, whatever it is, it will create ripple effects throughout the world and space because everything that you do that is positive and with passion will grow and inspire others and will help you do what you are here to learn and experience. Your dreams are not coincidental or fanciful or elusive. If you have that desire now, it is for a reason.

Quiz time! Grab a piece of paper (or a journal because this may the beginning of your journey!) and let us begin to piece it all together.

1. In your ideal life when you wake up in the morning where are you? Hawaii? South Dakota? Italy?

On a farm? In the city? In a cozy home? Be detailed. Even if you think it is impossible. Be exact.

2. In your ideal life who is there with you? Be honest. Are you happy in your relationships? Are there things that need to be addressed? Who are the people that you love most and that make your life beautiful and fulfilling?

3. In your ideal life, when you first wake up, what are you doing? What is your role? Are you a writer? A farmer? A traveler? A doctor? What do people come to you for?

4. Picture yourself in your mind’s eye. What do you look like? What do you want to look like?

5. Name all of the things you have interest in right now, no matter how small. Gardening, running a bed and breakfast, starting a sanctuary, going back to school, opening a restaurant, learning yoga, getting rid of clutter, losing weight, writing a book, getting a dog….write down everything! They may not seem related but upon further analysis you may see that they are all related!

6. What are you best at? What do people come to you for or say that you are the best at? Does that thing bring you joy?

7. Name twenty blessings in your life right now. Name five things you would like to see morph into something better.

Now go back and answer questions 1-3 in present tense. How things are now. Compare them to your ideal life.

Really study what you do, where you want to be, who you want to be with, what your passions and interests are, how you want to be seen, what your life does and could look like. You may love your life and that is great but we are always moving and morphing and our path keeps winding so to have a fresh perspective on what we want to do, where we want to be, and what we want to experience in this lifetime are important. Keep learning, keep dreaming, be your best self, don’t become complacent or hopeless, move bravely down the path of your passion!

The warm wind blew around me foretelling a light rain to come. The mosquitos lessened and took cover as I pulled bindweed and thistle. I don’t know why I would be weeding a garden that I cannot harvest from but I looked down the other day and noticed my nails were clean. The lines in my hands were free of earth. I had to get back into the garden. I pulled weeds and counted what was growing. Rows and rows of crops are waving proudly in the prairie soil. Plants growing heartily in the prairie without much amendment and among weeds and voles. My goodness, I think I can say I have a green thumb now. How easy it will be in the city. I begin to cry. The cows are lowing loudly to capture the attention of the males across the road and the owls sweep grandly from tree to tree and the wind carries on it the sweet smell of first cut hay drying in the sun. The country holds a place in my heart that cannot be tethered. But it is not meant to be for us now.

There are great opportunities in the city as well. Wonderful folks to meet and wilder animals coming through from the mountains. Its own beautiful scenery and friends to be found. And seeds. I can always plant seeds. A message from a friend and I now understand. It is sometimes hard to step off and go with the wind in a new direction but there is always a reason and the Creator knows where we are going in this sliver of time. We just have to hold on to the tailwind and be on our way.

Katie Lynn Sanders is an urban Farmgirl, writer, Mama, Grammie, and herbalist. Katie lives with her husband, Gandalf the Great Pyrenees, kitties, and seven chickens in a hundred year old adobe in Pueblo. She is the writer of two blogs; FarmgirlSchool.org and DancingWithFeathers.com. You can find all of Katie's books at www.AuthorKatieSanders.com